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HI Kraig,if any of the original owners still have their helmets than this is a recast or the one wich was "lost" in transit. So it would be nice if every owner would make a statement if he still has his helmet. I looked at the sellers photobucket account and the cast looks very sharp, just the paintjob is a bit suspect for me.

Maybe DIF can chime in and say what he thinks of the whole situation? It seems strange that he didn't receive two very nice castings of a helmet and what ever else he was sent? I'm not jumping to conclusions as that would not be fair, but........Were these items sent with tracking numbers? It would be a little silly not to have seeing as the importance of them.......

On a lighter note we had a baby girl last night at 7.45pm 7.7lbs/3.5Kgs Jaimie Diana Edwards..... We named her middle name after my mum who sadly passed away a month ago.......

Since I don't have a true knowledge about Vader's helmets, I made some research about this TM helmet (I always thought that TM were only fan made stormtroopers helmets).Thus it seems that this helmet is pretty rare.

When I got this helmet, it was a trade between it and a stormtrooper helmet. The guy were from Australia.

I received the helmet painted. I kept it a long time in his box. Too busy with other projects (mainly stormtroopers helmets).Some months ago, I finally decided to finish it. I made the mistake to use a varnish (in order to make it shiny as a glass) which had a bad reaction with the paint of the helmet. Thus I had to sand it.But it was too long to get a perfect finish and I've been a little bit disgusted. So I decided to use it as a test for a chrome paint (C 3PO project).

I saw a topic on RPF about my previous sale ( Zorg C 3PO helmet). I thank you for the "good" words about me. But I can understand why you wrote this. To reassure you, it was a real Zorg helmet and not a recast. I bought it from him and he contacted me to get more details.

Now for the Vader helmet, if you say that it is a recast of a limited helmet, I trust you. I don't know the subtleties between each Vader movies helmets or each fan made, thus I'm not going to discuss your comments.I don't want to be considered as a recaster since I'm not. I had many troopers helmets like GINO, TE2, TE, CFO or RSprop and never copied them.

Maybe I should keep this helmet if you say that it has a good lineage. But if it's a recast, it doesn't solve the problem.

HI,could you please tell me who the former owner is? Perhaps i know him. This helmet is from a very limited run a friend of mine made and i need to know the original owner. Otherwise this is clearly a recast of this helmet....the TM ROTJ. So if you havent recast this helmet than it was his former owner and i would like to contact him because of this bullshit.Every original owner stated that he is still in the possession of his helmet so this must be a recast. Since you are a member on the RPF it would be nice to get this thing cleared before selling it. Was this a raw cast or was the helmet painted?

Hi.Thanks.I really don't know its origins or lineage.I got it in a trade. I'm not really a Vader expert and my priority is the trooper (even if I really like Vader and would love to have all the helmet in my collection).I thought that it would be the first, but finally I didn't had the time to finish it as a real Vader helmet.Thus, I used it for my paint test.

So he says that he got it from Australia? Interesting! In all honesty, I don't think I would swap ANY trooper helmet for a limited run of an accurate Vader helmet. It makes me lean toward it being a recast. But the proof will be in the pudding if, as Thomas suggested, he shows the inside of it.

I really hate to say this, but recasting is rife in Aus. It's hard to battle it and a lot of the costuming clubs don't care and sometimes recommend the recasts as a "Cheap alternative" TPE, a maker here in Aus will only sell completed (glued and screwed) helmets because of this. So, there's a possibility that someone's recast a Vader here too... it makes me want to do this

But the proof will be in the pudding if, as Thomas suggested, he shows the inside of it.

Cheers, Kraig, he actually did....

And he also has many other photos on his gallery that should clearly indicate who this guy is, I even remember seeing one of these before on RPF (the first one).....

His story sounds too complicated, contrived. Someone must know this guy from these photos. And someone must be able to tell from the inside of the dome if this is Jespers or not.

As far as I am concerned, the onus is on him to provide information insofar as who specifically he got this from, otherwise he is responsible for trying to sell what is either a recast or an unauthorized helmet sale.

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